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12756802, NAACP: Missing African American man found hanging from tree(swipe)
Posted by lfresh, Thu Mar-19-15 04:10 PM
oh god
and h/t ChiBrownSkinLady
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/28564895/naacp-wants-us-justice-department-to-investigate-suspicious-hanging-death
CLAIBORNE COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
The FBI and the MBI are investigating a suspicious death in Claiborne County.
A body was found on property located off of Rodney Road.
The Coroner, J.W. Mallett, confirms the man was found hanging from a tree.
The Claiborne County branch of the NAACP is indicating the man found hanging is Otis Byrd.
The FBI is only saying that it is a "man last seen March 2nd; and his family filed a missing persons report with the Claiborne County Sheriff's Department on March 8th."
They say the body was found during a ground search by the Claiborne County Sheriff's Department and the Mississippi Wildlife Fisheries and Parks.
54-year-old Otis James Byrd was last seen when a friend dropped him off at Vicksburg's Riverwalk Casino earlier this month.
His family and friends hadn't heard from him since then.
The NAACP has now sent an email requesting the US Department of Justice "join the current investigation of the suspicious hanging death of Mr. Otis Byrd."
The email goes on to say: "Mr. Otis Byrd's body was today, Thursday, March 19, 2015. After several days of missing, was found hanged to death."
The FBI says the body was found "a half mile from his last know residence."
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12756805, had to double take-
Posted by kinetic94761180, Thu Mar-19-15 04:12 PM
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/atlanta-pastor-found-stabbed-to-death/ncdgC/
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12756807, I'm going to go out on a limb and say
Posted by John Forte, Thu Mar-19-15 04:13 PM
No black man has hung himself from a tree in over 100 years. Sure, some have hung themselves, but not in public, and certainly not from a fucking tree. Black man hanging from tree = foul play.
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12756963, Phrasing. But that's absolutely true. Why cause an incident?
Posted by Doronmonkflake, Thu Mar-19-15 09:12 PM
That's insane.
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12756837, So this is what SAE was chanting about, huh?
Posted by GameTheory, Thu Mar-19-15 04:47 PM
Its all fun and games until someone takes your BS seriously.
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12756845, uhh...hmmm.
Posted by SoWhat, Thu Mar-19-15 04:52 PM
lynching = terrorism. terrorists tend to crow about their terroristic acts.
there could be foul play here but i'm sure if this is a lynching. b/c IIRC lynchings usually happened in public w/an audience. they wanted folks to see it - to serve as deterrent. but the fact that this incident seems to have occurred undercover doesn't mean it wasn't a lynching. it's pretty curious though.
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12756864, and not to be overly cynical
Posted by GriftyMcgrift, Thu Mar-19-15 05:23 PM
if i had just robbed and murdered someone over casino money, it may behoove me to make it look like motive was something other than monetary
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12756964, Or it was just a bonus. Always wanted to try it, now's their chance.
Posted by Doronmonkflake, Thu Mar-19-15 09:14 PM
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12756967, for sure
Posted by GriftyMcgrift, Thu Mar-19-15 09:27 PM
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12756981, lynchings happened in public bc no fear of arrest/consequence
Posted by Riot, Thu Mar-19-15 10:15 PM
Along with those instances where the lynchmob/kkk were the very same police themselves
21st century cases like this and kendrick johnson are definitely to send a message, but the perps ain't gonna put themselves in the open
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12757622, Thank you
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Fri Mar-20-15 01:45 PM
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12757700, maybe.
Posted by SoWhat, Fri Mar-20-15 02:56 PM
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12756863, this could be bad.
Posted by 2.tears.in.a.bucket, Thu Mar-19-15 05:21 PM
i mean it IS bad, but i think the kettle is abt to bubble over.
& i always thought black folks tried their best to hide bodies...
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12756972, Its quickly reaching its boiling point
Posted by GrumpySmurf, Thu Mar-19-15 09:41 PM
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12756865, Mississippi back on that bullshit again
Posted by after midnight, Thu Mar-19-15 05:25 PM
Why brothers in the deep south don't stay strapped up I'll never understand.
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12756909, 1998, it was James Byrd...2015, it's Otis James Byrd
Posted by PIMPINCHICAGO, Thu Mar-19-15 06:28 PM
Crazy altogether
Terrorism indeed.
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12756995, ^^ in 2010 it was Frederick Jermaine Carter
Posted by seasoned vet, Thu Mar-19-15 10:49 PM
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